In China's ancient novels, we often see such a character who knows astronomy above and geography below. Whether it's the Three Graves and Five Codes, a hundred schools of thought contend, medical divination, Yuqiao and Sang Ma, they are all omniscient. This may be a kind of "erudition" complex that China literati can't give up. They are always eager to exhaust infinite knowledge with their limited lives. In this respect, Professor Zhao Xinshan from the Institute of German-Austrian Culture of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences can be said to be an almost extreme example. Judging from more than 20 books published in recent years, this man seems to have studied almost all important fields of arts and sciences, such as philosophy, poetry, quantum physics, mathematics, music, architecture, sex and so on. It's an eye-opener. It is doubtful whether generalists are equal to "real materials" and whether erudition is "practical learning". However, in the face of such heckling from academics and readers, Professor Zhao Da himself turned a deaf ear, and he still stormed the windmill of human knowledge with Don Quixote courage. Anyway, this is really a lovely person.
What happened in the end
What I care about is the problem of human civilization, the merits and demerits of human civilization, architecture, the philosophical basis of quantum mechanics and classical music.
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Zhao Xinshan, a writer and scholar, is currently the director of the Institute of German-Austrian Culture of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He has published more than 20 books covering quantum physics, biology, mathematics, philosophy, cultural history, sex, music, architecture, literature and many other fields.
Zhao Xinshan: I consider myself a millstone. The first is science, the second is liberal arts ... and the axis is philosophy. Compare yourself to a donkey, very enthusiastic ... works with artistic appeal.
Subtitles begin with loneliness.
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Zhao Xinshan once wrote an article, Loneliness and the Creation of Human Culture. Indeed, loneliness is the result of people's survival being abandoned, and at the same time, people find themselves in loneliness. Loneliness has often become the driving force of culture and art, and like the fate of his contemporaries, collective politics has caused the tension of individual survival. Under the strong influence of an absurd group will, Zhao Xinshan's personal fate was changed. He was sent to the seaside of Liaoning to herd sheep for six years. However, unlike many of his contemporaries, Zhao Xinshan was really lonely there. This became the realistic starting point of his academic career.
Zhao Xinshan: It is from 1969 to 1975. At that time, the only comfort was reading, reading secretly and taking risks. A person is lonely, but I am not afraid of loneliness. I need loneliness, I need to face the world alone.
Reporter: Zhao Xinshan's gray hair and beard still seem to smell the salt on the seashore at that time. Life by the sea enabled him to observe the magnificence of nature at close range, which made him deeply realize the smallness of human beings. At this time, the understanding of human loneliness became the source of his anxiety, which prompted him to exhaust his understanding and grasp of the universe. Grasping infinity with finiteness is an illusion in itself, but in another sense, it is also the ultimate goal of human civilization. Zhao Xinshan took this as a starting point and became a member of civilization.
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In the difficult and short life, you can always feel the fundamental loneliness, and those who find a way out will feel a tragic and wonderful beauty.
-Zhao Xinshan's loneliness and the creation of human culture
Subtitle Zhao Xinshan's problem
Zhao Xinshan: The question of why people are alive is difficult to answer. Li Bai, a great man of Einstein, Goethe and China, never gave a conclusion in his life: Why do people live? Quite a difficult question. At the age of 70, Einstein asked me why I was alive. The problem of life, the meaning of life, always puzzles everyone.
Reporter: Archimedes, an ancient Greek mathematician, once said, Give me a fulcrum and I will support the earth. The tragedy of mankind is that we have no fulcrum. Goethe and Einstein can't, and neither can Zhao Can Sinshan. Although Zhao Xinshan constantly feels and questions in his works, the result of questioning is to move from one blank to another.
Zhao Xinshan: I'm afraid this is very tragic. This is my major premise. I am a very sad and passionate person.
Reporter: Facing the nothingness of life and the life surrounded by nothingness, Zhao Xinshan began to write down his depression and anguish with a pen, so as to resist nothingness itself. Only then did he realize that writing is the best way for him to live in this world, and life is a long poem written on a big piece of paper.
Zhao Xinshan: Our life is a very annoying thing. It seems that we are surrounded by the enemy on three floors and four floors. We're going to rush out. If you don't rush out, you're dead. If you are caught, you will die. Might as well rush out. I rushed forward with a Grenade strapped to my body. At this time, I was very happy and mutually assured destruction with the enemy.
Are subtitles screenwriters or screenwriters?
Zhao Xinshan: I write about a wide range of subjects. I am a scholar, and I like the new and hate the old. I don't want to stick to a topic for a long time. Be sure to jump out of another field.
Reporter: In this way, Zhao Xinshan jumped from Planck to Einstein, from Beethoven to Mozart, from German classical philosophy to Hitler, from crying earth to philosophical and poetic architecture, from philosophy and the contemporary world to war and male hormones. Then, people saw a crazy writing Zhao Xinshan.
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List of Zhao Xinshan's main works
Philosophy and the contemporary world, Planck's soul, the earth is crying, it is raining at dusk, war and male hormones, Beethoven's soul, Mozart's soul, Hitler and contemporary art, architecture is a poem of philosophy,,,
Reporter: If you talk too much, there will be no writing. Zhao Xinshan, who calls himself a donkey, is really diligent and talented, but when you talk about ten sentences with the capacity of ten books, the books will inevitably get wet. At this time, some people criticized that running around with half a can of water just to make money simply degenerated into a writer like Yu. Having said that, critics have to admit that his "Soul of Mozart", "Soul of Beethoven" and several books on architecture not only sell well, but also are genuine and become classics with cultural enlightenment nature.
Zhao Xinshan: Unfortunately, I don't sell much. My book doesn't sell well. Not many people can accept my idea. Maybe in a few years, with people's interest in culture, everyone will be more interested. My book may sell better. Still want to spread this idea, a very important idea.
Subtitles melodramatic or sincere?
Text prompt
Qian Zhongshu once described a "impressionist" literary critic in his prose, saying that when we see the sentence "His life is simply a beautiful poem", the following must be a less beautiful prose, which may also be a shortcoming of Zhao Xinshan. Indeed, no one can stand such a melodrama: he writes equations endlessly in his articles and says it is beautiful; Endless passion and lyricism; Endless kneeling and crying for big things; Express his views on everything endlessly-physics, biology, mathematics, philosophy, sex, music, architecture, etc ... as if his enthusiasm would never be exhausted. What a headache.
Zhao Xinshan: I only have three cards, namely, science, art and philosophy. I can't finish playing. I can't play these three cards by myself. My opponent is the world. You can also say that you had a good time. This person has a lot of troubles, not my personal troubles, not my personal pain or the pain of the world.
Reporter: This is Zhao Xinshan's answer. We also feel this in his fanatical stream of consciousness works. If a person keeps telling you the same thing, he is either crazy or religious. For Zhao Xinshan, human knowledge has become his religion, and writing is a ritual and his way of existence. Perhaps, when you disdain this, he is deeply worried about you. Zhao Xinshan's writing is a kind of transcendence to himself, and also a kind of commitment to each individual's fate to others. This is the loveliness and respect of every religious person. Therefore, we can't ask him for more.
Zhao Xinshan: I really have nothing to do after dinner. What should I do? I will think about it. Writing is essentially the same. Just like fishing. Is he fishing? No, not for the fish itself. He is pursuing this process. (freeze, black fall)